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Apple announced a small range of new products -- overall more of a refresh of existing lines than the introduction of something new.

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Chris Tayler is the Deputy Editor for Mashable.Karissa Bell is a reporter for Mashable.CHRIS: You called the event the "most underwhelming example of Apple stagecraft since Gil Amelio was CEO in 1997." Why was the event a dull flop, in your opinion? Q: Apple obsesses over thinness. The iPad Air 2 is thinner than a pencil. Does anyone care about this? Q: What else is new in the iPad Air 2? Q: They barely mentioned the iPad mini 3. Anything interesting in this product besides the introduction of Touch ID?Q: Apple rolled out a new 27-inch iMac with a 5K retina display. Will this appeal to mainstream users, or is it mainly for professionals? Q: How about the Mac Mini. What's new there? Q: Apple announced a Monday launch for Apple Pay. How big is this introduction going to be? Q: Apple spent 35 minutes re-hashing last month's announcement. What was the point of that?Q: There were giant chunks of information missing and expected products not announced: 1) a ship date for the Apple Watch2) any indication about Apple's plans for Apple TV3) MacBook Air with Retina

Apple rolled out -- but did not announce at its event -- a new SIM card called Apple SIM. According to a statement buried at the bottom of one of its iPad web pages, the Apple SIM gives users the quote "flexibility to choose from a variety of short term plans," unquote. They're referring, of course, to carrier plans. In other words, a single SIM can be used on AT&T or Sprint, and the choice can be made by the user by simply selecting the carrier from a dialog box.

Q: Is this for iPad only?Q: What do the carriers think of this -- especially the possibility for iPhones in the future?Q: Forbes' Parmy Olsen says carrier objection to the idea is why Apple didn't mention it. Do you agree with that? Q: This has been tried before, but not in the United States. Will the idea take off in the US, Japan and Europe? Q: Recode's Ina Fried says Verizon won't support it. Why did the other carriers opt in? Q: The Next Web's Ben Woods points out that these kinds of multi-carrier SIMs have existed for years in markets like Pakistan and India. Apple took that idea and made it simpler than how it works in those countries. Is any part of Apple's SIM patentable?

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A Guardian report hit yesterday that slammed the anonymous messaging app Whisper for tracking users, harvesting their personal data, then sharing it with the Pentagon, among other things. Whisper slammed the report, saying it doesn't follow or track users, and accused the Guardian of publishing quote: "Lousy Falsehoods" unquote. Their defense is that while they monitor users, they don't retain personally identifiable information like names or phone numbers. Whisper did, however, quickly and extensively change their privacy policy statement.

A: Whisper not recording names or phone numbersA: Whisper is storing ALL time and location of messages since 2012 launchA: Guardian says Whisper tracks newsworthy peopleA: Policy previously said would store data only for "a brief period of time." A: Data shared with Pentagon is from military personnelA: Guardian: Whisper has in-house mapping tool for pinpoint where messages were sentA: Developing a version to conform to Chinese censorshipA: 2.6 million messages a dayA: offshore base in the Philippines where more than 100 employees screen messages 24 hours a dayA: Geolocation feature new and optionalA: Guardian: Tracked Israeli Defense Forces on the front line -- tracked 13 or 14 soldiersA: Guardian: Tracking a sex-obsessed lobbyist in D.C.A: Guardian: Roughly track people who don't opt in to geolocation via IP address lookup

The BBC announced plans to continually publish a list of BBC articles removed from Google searches under the "right to be forgotten" rule in order to protect the public's "right to remember." More than 46 BBC links have so far been affected by the right-to-be-forgotten ruling. The list goes live in the next few weeks, according to a BBC article. * * *

We told you on previous episodes that the Twitter-centric photo sharing service Twitpic was being shut down, then it was going to be saved by a buyer. But now we're back to tell you that, no, it's going to be shut down after all. Twitpic founder Noah Everett wrote on the company blog that: “It’s with a heavy heart that I announce again that Twitpic will be shutting down on October 25th." * * *

In other news, a China Unicom branch in Shanghai, China, is offering to alter the pants of iPhone 6 Plus customers to make their pockets bigger. It's a publicity stunt, obviously, and a good one. But it's not an original one. They apparently copied the idea from telco KPN in Amsterdam, which offered the same goofy "service" when the iPhone launched there.

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Apple and IBM report earnings on Monday, October 20th. Also on Monday: Microsoft is holding a cloud event in San Francisco. Yahoo and Verizon report earnings on Tuesday, October 21st. And Microsoft and Amazon have earnings calls scheduled for Thursday, October 23rd.

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Google is working on new technology that could be the wireless version of its high-speed fiber service. The project was revealed in regulatory filing paperwork. In a heavily redacted application on Monday to the FCC, Google asked permission to test different wireless spectrums, including a millimeter-wave frequency that could theoretically transmit huge amounts of data at several gigabits per second.

Alexei Oreskovic is a reporter for Reuters.Q: What's so great about millimeter-wave frequency wireless?Q: This technology is not super long-range, and it requires line of site. How might Google use it in neighborhoods? Q: Could this help break the dominance of the Comcasts of the world, by providing competition not only to cable providers, but also to cable itself? Q: When and where will Google test this?

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A: The downside of Millimeter wave frequency technologies is that it only covers a small area -- a few blocks in size -- and it also requires line-of-sight. A: Google could run fiber to neighborhood poles, which could transmit to satellite dish-style receivers on rooftops. A: “From a radio standpoint it’s the closest thing to fiber there is,” said Stephen Crowley, a wireless engineer and consultant who monitors FCC filings (quoted on Reuters)A: millimeter frequencies can transmit data over short distances at speeds of several gigabits per second.A: Put up a pole in a neighborhood, instead of having to run fiber to each home,” said Crowley.A: Filing filed by Craig Barratt, the head of the Google Access and Energy division leading the effort to offer high-speed fiberA: The Information reported that Google was exploring ways to offer a full-fledged wireless service, with voice and Internet access, in markets where the company already offers its Fiber service.A: Google’s application to conduct the 180-day test is heavily redacted to protect confidential information that Google said would provide “valuable insight into Google’s technology innovations and potential business plans and strategy.”A: The FCC is scheduled to hold a meeting on Friday about the use of wireless spectrum above 24 GHz for mobile services, including ways the agency can facilitate the development and deployment of technology using such frequencies.A: Related: Google earnings today at 1pm PacificA: Related: Google Fiber in Austin is officially delayed until December (originally scheduled for "mid year")

A: Joins HBO which announced ysterday that it will offer its own streaming service to non-cable subscribers. Has the future FINALLY arrived?A: Will this revenue model actually make enough money to replace the cable fees these broadcasters currently make?A: Current CBS shows will have commercials, old episodes of shows like Cheers will not.

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Facebook announced a service that lets people tell family and friends that they're OK after a crisis or natural disaster. It's called Safety Check, and it sends users a push notification after a disaster to those whose phone locations show they're in the area. By pressing a button, you can reply with the news that you're fine, and that information is made available to others who care about you.

Kurt Wagner writes about social media for RecodeQ: How do you use the system, both as someone stuck in a disaster zone, and also as someone concerned about a loved on?Q: How did this new service come about? Q: Do you need a Facebook account to use it? Q: Is this already up and running?

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A: Announced by Zuck in TokyoA: Can also check in for a friend.A: Idea for Safety Check came from Facebook’s Japan office following the 2011 earthquake and ensuing tsunamiA: Employees at the time developed a Disaster Message Board within Facebook to help families and friends connect in the wake of potential disastersA: Facebook could partner with groups like the Red Cross laterA: Facebook’s Safety Check is now active for all 1.3 billion users.

Bad news for people still using HP TouchPad and HP Pre 3 devices. HP has announced the end of support for webOS. After January 15th, users will no longer be able to get updates, apps, lost passwords or backups for webOS. If you recall, mobile multi-touch operating system was acquired by the company as part of its $1.2 billion purchase of Palm Inc in July of 2010. * * *

Recode sources say Apple may stop selling Fitbit products in Apple stores. The move comes a month and a half after Apple announced its own alternative to Fitbit devices, the Apple Watch, and one week after Fitbit issued a statement saying it was still in the process of “evaluating integration with HealthKit." At its peak, Fitbit claimed 70 percent marketshare of the fitness tracking device market.

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Google unveiled today three new Nexus devices. Google’s new $649 Nexus 6 smartphone, made by Motorola; the $399 Nexus 9 tablet, made by HTC; and $99 Nexus Player for TVs, made by Asustek, are said by Rolfe Winkler in the Wall Street Journal are designed and priced to compete against Apple -- the Nexi, for example, are priced higher than previous models. All three devices can be pre-ordered later this week. The phone and tablet will will go on sale in dozens of countries next month. The tablet and player will also work with an optional keyboard and game controller, respectively. And they all run Lollipop (got to get used to saying that).

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Google researchers have discovered a bug in SSL 3.0 that could enable hackers to hijack user accounts for banks, email and other services. And they named it Poodle, for Padding Oracle On Downloaded Legacy Encryption.

Dennis Fisher is a journalist who specializes in security and wrote about Poodle for ThreatPost.Q: How would a Poodle attack work? Q: What can IT admins and users do to protect against attacks?Q: How does this compare with Heartbleed and Shellshock? Q: Has a Poodle attack ever occurred? Q: What are Google and Mozilla going to do about this?

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A: 18-year old encryption standard known as SSL 3.0.A: hackers could steal browser "cookies" in "Poodle" attacksA: disclosed in a research paper published on the website of the OpenSSL ProjectA: attackers would need to launch a "man-in-the-middle" attackA: Mozilla plans to disable SSL 3.0 by default in the next version of Firefox

The drama over the apparent fall-out between Apple and its sapphire manufacturing partner GT Advanced Technologies, continues. The U.S. Justice Department wants to know why GT filed for bankruptcy only 10 months after making a lucrative deal with Apple. Apple wants to challenge GT's bankruptcy, but is asking the court to keep the details a secret. And an executive with GT Advanced Technologies has been caught selling GT shares after the company fell behind on its sapphire production schedule for Apple.

Phil Goldstein is the editor of FierceWireless.Q: There's a lot going on here. Let's start with the basics. Can you tell us about the Apple / GT deal and the bankruptcy filing? Q: Apple wants to keep the details secret, and has a $50 contractual fine for each violation of confidentiality. Any idea why Apple would want to keep it a secret? Q: Why does GT want to close it's plants and how would that affect Apple? Q: Did GT fail to keep its manufacturing promises, and is that why iPhone 6s don't have sapphire?Q: Will Apple likely prevail in keeping all this a secret? Q: OK, so GT COO Daniel Squiller apparently knew the stock would tank when word got out -- so he got out, selling $1.2 million worth of stock way back in May and arranging for the sale of another three-quarters of a million dollars over the months leading up to the October 6th bankruptcy filing. That's pretty illegal, right?

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Chip giant Qualcomm today agreed to buy the UK chip maker CSR for about $2.5 billion. CSR is a major Bluetooth wireless technology company. The CSR board approved the sale unanimously, and the company's stock rose 33 percent in early morning trading. The deal is subject to regulatory approval.

Mozilla yesterday unveiled something called the Humble Mozilla Bundle, which lets you play games in a browser without downloads or plug-ins. The games can be played in any WebGL-compatible browser, so that includes Firefox and Chrome. And for the next two weeks, users can pay whatever they want for DRM-free versions of a handful of games. The Bundle, and the pay-what-you-want deal, is the result of a partnership between Humble Bundle and Mozilla.

Speaking at a Time Warner Investor Meeting today, HBO's CEO announced that the company plans to start selling a digital online subscription package that doesn't require a pay-TV subscription. The new offering is expected next year. * * *

A new study reveals that a man is being treated for Google Glass addiction -- the first known case. The man, whose name was not given in the study, was admitted into the Navy's Substance Abuse and Recovery Program for alcoholism. But before being admitted, he had been wearing his Google Glass headset for 18 hours a day. He removed it only to sleep and, unlike Robert Scoble, to bathe. And his withdrawals from Glass were much worse than the withdrawal he experienced after giving up alcohol. Doctors reported that it took 35 days for him to stop reflexively poking and swiping at his temple, although they say he continued to have dreams "as if looking through Glass." * * *

Smartwatches are coming out of the woodwork these days, and most of them do similar functions. But a new $139 smartwatch called klatz being crowd-funded on Kickstarter does something unique. Jason, let's check it out. * * *

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Google plans to invest heavily in a secretive company called Magic Leap. The company makes both hardware and software for the creation of a photo-realistic user interface for both virtual and augmented reality called Cinematic Reality. According to an exclusive by Recode, Google is leading what could be a $500 million round of funding.

Sebastian Anthony writes for ExtremeTech and PCMag. Q: What do we know about Magic Leap's forthcoming products? Q: Magic Leap calls their interface using the trademarked phrase Cinematic Reality, because they say augmented reality and virtual reality are obsolete terms. But isn't their technology just augmented reality? Q: What benefits come from Google's investment. First dibs on the technology? Access to the plans? Why invest? Q: Is this similar to the Oculus headset, owned by Facebook, or completely different?

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A: Probably building a high-rez Google-glass like headsetA: Magic Leap already announced $50 million in funding earlier this year.A: Call it "cinematic reality" because they believe "augmented reality" and "virtual reality" are obsolete terms.A: Avegant are also working on vivid high resolution displays via a projector worn on the face — though for the purpose of watching moviesA: Magic Leap has been around since 2011A: headquartered in Hollywood, FloridaA: More than 100 employeesA: Separately, Facebook acquired Oculus VR Inc. in early 2014 for $2 billion. Will Google's efforts compete with Oculus at all?

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Amazon, the etail giant, is making some brick and mortar moves in San Francisco, Sacramento and New York. The moves come as Google attempts to bolster its Amazon Prime alternative, now called Google Express. Both GeekWire and The Wall Street Journal have been pacing the Amazon storefront coverage.

A: SF Store: Amazon confirmed to GeekWire that it will open pop-ups in downtown SF plus Sacramento. A: Earlier, the Journal said a full store was coming to NYC.A: This is all about getting Amazon products -- Kindle Fire, FireTV, etc. -- in front of customers.A: Experimental Apple Store-like model? But purely sales, not support?A: Can something like this save Amazon Fire Phone?A: Manhattan store rumored to be more of a product pick-up location rather than showroom.A: First Quarter 2014 Tablet Market Share (IDC): Apple 32.5%; Samsung 22.3%; Asus 5.0%; Lenovo 4.1%, Amazon 1.9%.A: As of Aug., Amazon sold only 35K Fire phones (estimate: The Guardian).A: Does bigger strategy remain: Sell the device, turn people onto Prime?A: Speaking of Prime, Google is renaming Shopping Express to simply Google Express.A: The move comes a day after Google Chairman Eric Schmidt called Amazon his company's biggest rival.A: Google Express offers same day/next day delivery. Adding Chicago, Boston and DC to existing markets like Bay Area, West LA and Manhattan.A: Google Express same day now covers 7M+ people; next day 12M+.A: Google Express = $95 year, less than $99 of Amazon Prime.A: The underlying Google, Amazon goals: Get as close to customers as fast as possible.

An anonymous Pastebin user posted hundreds of Dropbox usernames and passwords. The hacker claims to have stolen the data from nearly 7 million accounts, and is asking for Bitcoin donations to crowdsource the caper.

Dwight Siliverman is with the Houston ChronicleQ: Where did the hacker get these usernames and passwords? Q: iCloud, Snapchat, now Dropbox.... What is Dropbox's responsibility here? Is there an API issue?Q: Are these passwords current or expired? Q: What should users do? Q: Is this a Dropbox issue or a broader file sharing discussion -- Box, Microsoft, Google, Amazon...?

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Russian hackers used a bug in Microsoft Windows to spy on several Western governments, NATO and the Ukrainian government, according to today's NY Times. The report follows a wave of US banking hanks that allegedly involved Russia.

A: The Times credited iSight Partners, a security firm in dallas, for the info.A: Russian hackers called "Sandworm" team because they used encoded references to the SciFi story Dune.A: Additional targets: European energy and telecom companies, and an undisclosed US academic organization.A: The hacks are likely related to the standoff in Ukraine between Russia and the West, the NY Times said.A: If true, then why do these hacks allegedly date back to 2009?A: The hacks involved a zero-day bug found in many versions of Windows.A: Earlier this month, JPMorgan Chase revealed a hack involving the accounts of 76M individuals and 7 million small businesses.A: Are we basically at war -- a digital war -- with Russia and other states that sponsor IT hacks?

Facebook has added stickers, which is essentially clip-art that replaces speech in online communication. Stickers have long been available in Facebook Chat, but now they can be used in comments. The social network has a variety of themes, such as Power Rangers, comedy chickens and various sports teams, which can be downloaded. The backlash on Facebook has already begun. * * *

The new Android L version is expected to hit tomorrow. Forbes.com is reporting that the Nexus 9, which is codenamed Volantis and made by Motorola, will also be announced tomorrow in a Google blog post and will be the first device to run Android L. The tablet will be available for preorder on October 17 and available for purhase on November 3, according to Forbes. Google rolled out three charming new ads for Android. Let's take a look. * * *

Scientists at the University of California Irvine have launched a smartphone app to crowdsource astronomy. They claim that the collective user-base will constitute the most powerful telescope in the world. The app is called Crayfis, which stands for Cosmic Rays Found In Smartphones. The app, which is currently in beta, will use phones to detect cosmic rays, then send the data back to a central server. The point is to find out where on Earth there are spikes in radiation from cosmic rays so scientists can unlock the mystery about where they come from.

In an email to Wells Fargo's CEO, a branch office employee at the bank requested a $10,000 raise. He cc:ed 200,000 other employees on the email, suggesting that they all get $10,000 raises, too. The carefully crafted email pointed to Wells Fargo's quarterly profits -- over $4B quarterly -- and low pay scales for rank and file employees across the banking industry. The email has poured gasoline on the raging debate over US wages. And there's a side question to all this: How did a rank-and-file employee manage to string together so many internal email groups to reach 200,000 peer employees?

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Twitter is working with a French bank to enable money transfers via tweets. The bank Groupe BPCE. The payments will be handled by the bank's S-Money service, which already allows transfers through text messages. The service is expected to be announced tomorrow in Paris.

Chris Merriman is a reporter for The InquirerQ: Can you tell us about S-Money? Q: If a company is already offering payments via SMS, isn't it trivial to offer it the same service through Twitter? What was the hold-up? Q: You wrote that this isn't a co-venture with Twitter. Is it a partnership? What kind of agreement or arrangement did they make?

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A: Last month, Twitter started trials of its own new service, dubbed "Twitter Buy" for buying stuff from Twitter

Q: How did this glitch affect Neilsen's estimates for TV audience viewership? Q: You wrote that the bug didn't affect ads. Why is that? Q: When will they publish the right numbers? Q: How does this problem affect Neilsen's reputation, and also its rivalry with Rentrak?

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Camera lens maker Carl Zeiss is getting into the virtual reality business The company launched a pre-order campaign for a product called VR One.

Kevin Joyce is the Editor-in-Chief of VR Focus and joins us now. Q: What is the VR One? Q: Which phones will it support? Q: How is this similar to or different from Samsung's Gear VR? Q: Is there an advantage for Carl Zeiss in their ability to make great lenses? qQ: The company is making a big deal about interpupillary distance, or IPD. What do they mean when they say they deliver a quote "large eyebox" unquote. Q: When can I buy one and how much will it cost?

Google released some numbers on how the company is handling right-to-be-forgotten requests. If you recall from our earlier coverage, the Justice of the European Union established the rule that in Europe a citizen has the right to request the removal of their name as a search term that returns links on search engines to information no longer valid or relevant. According to the rules, the search engine companies themselves are responsible for choosing which requests are valid. Google's new report says the company rejects about half the requests made and has approved only a third. The remainder are still being decided.

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin [CAP-er-nick] was fined ten thousand dollars for wearing pink Beats (which are pink to raise awareness about breast cancer). Kaepernick has an endorsement deal with Beats, which is now owned by Apple. The NFL, however, has a deal with Bose, and as part of that deal has banned players from appearing on camera during games with Beats headphones. * * *

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Tesla last night unveiled some major new features for its electric sedans. The company's CEO and founder, Elon Musk, also announced a high-performance version of Tesla's Model S that will have all-wheel drive and go from zero to 60 in three point two seconds.

James Temple is a senior editor at Recode. Q: Musk announced a new $120,000 P85D version of the Model S that goes from zero to 60 in three point two seconds. Is that legal? Q: Should people who buy massively expensive cars like this qualify for a tax-payer funded electric vehicle incentive? Q: Tesla announced some cool automation features. Can you tell us about those?Q: What if someone spray-paints a "1" in front of a 55 mph speed limit sign. How fast will it take the P85D to get up to 155 mph? Q: Musk announced the addition of 10 extra miles for Model S sedans, which he called a huge improvement. They did it by adding a second motor, right? Q: The self-driving system will park itself and bring the car to you without anyone in the car. Is this legal?

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A: The new system will move the car over a lane when the driver uses the turn signal.A: The car reads speed-limit signs and adjusts the car to the speed on the sign.A: Drivers will be able to get out of the car in their driveways and watch it park itself in the garage. A: When drivers are ready to leave, the car will able to drive itself up

About two hundred thousand pictures and videos sent by Snapchat users may have been hacked and stolen. People claiming credit for the theft say they'll soon post the pictures online. 4chan users have already dubbed it "the Snappening."

David Meyer writes for Gigaom and joins us now. Q: Thumbnails were posted on 4chan as proof. Is this credible? Q: Snapchat pictures are supposed to be self-destructing. How could this happen? Q: What's the point of using a self-destructing photo service, then backing up photos on Snapsave? Q: If compromising pictures of minors are among the pictures, would the hackers then face child pornography charges if caught?Q: The pictures will be searchable by Snapchat ID. I assume, though, that most users would use a pseudonym on Snapchat.

An exclusive in The Wall Street Journal this morning says that a new generation of digital marketing companies are searching for and harvesting selfies from sites like Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Tumblr and Flickr for marketing purposes.

Wall Street Journal reporter Doug MacMillan joins us to talk about it. Q: Tell us about Ditto Labs, and what their doing with our selfies. Q: Is this legal? Does any of what they're doing cross the line? Q: What's the harm? Q: Aren't personal photos automatically copyrighted? Q: Why does Ditto post these pictures on their web site? What do they gain by that?

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ReadWrite's Selena Larson reported yesterday that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella implied that women shouldn't ask for a raise when they feel they are underpaid, but instead should have faith that the system will give them the right raise. Historically, the system has been paying women 78 cents for every dollar men make in the same positions. Speaking during a live interview on stage at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, Nadella also said not asking for a raise is "good karma" and one of the superpowers women have.

Selena Larson joins us now. Q: Nadella backtracked pretty quickly, right? What did he say on Twitter and also in a letter to Microsoft employees after you called him out? Q: How does Microsoft compare on diversity numbers with other technology companies? Q: I believe Nadella was the first man to headline the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. Will he be the last? Q: I loved the last line in your original piece on this. You said: Karma doesn't pay the bills.

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Touch tablets seem like they've been commoditized and genericized. But one company isn't giving up. Lenovo, just added a unique feature to its Yoga Tablet 2 Pro -- a built in projector.

Dan Ackerman writes at CNET and joins us to talk about the new Yoga 2. Q: Is the projector a gimmick, or is it powerful enough to be useful? Q: The Yoga Tablet 2 Pro has a 13-inch screen -- the same size as the rumored Apple iPad that has been reportedly delayed until well into next year. Is this too big for a tablet? Q: If someone wants to play TV shows or movies using the projector, are the speakers good enough for that kind of use? Q: What's the difference in battery life between using and not using the projector feature? Q: Price and availability?

Jeremy Owens writes or the Silicon Valley paper of record, the San Jose Mercury News. Q: What's Symantec's reason for the split? Q: HP and eBay both announced splits. Is this a trend in the valley? Q: Symantec CEO Michael Brown announced the split. He's the fourth CEO for Symantec in five years, and has been in the role for less than a month. Who will lead the new companies? Q: Is this about seeking out an acquisition of its storage business? Q: What did Wall Street think of the announcement?

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In an exclusive, the trade publication Business of Fashion reported that the Apple Watch will be featured on the cover of Vogue China. The watch will be worn by supermodel Liu Wen. Finally -- something the Apple Watch can do that Android Wear watches cannot: Get on the cover of Vogue.

My name is Mike Elgan. Have a great weekened everybody -- and pre-emptive congratulations to Kevin and Nadia. We'll see you Monday.

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Coming up this week: Intel reports earnings on Tuesday, October 14theBay and Netflix do the same on Wednesday the 15thand IBM has their call scheduled for Thursday the 16th

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Apple's iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus become available in China on Friday, October 17th.

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HTC announced a small range of new products yesterday, including a smartphone called the Desire Eye, which is optimized for selfies; the Desire 610, which is optimized for cheapness; and the Re camera, which looks like an asthma inhaler.

Dan Seifert is reviews editor for The Verge. Q: Are you impressed with the Desire Eye? Who's going to buy it? Q: Why don't more smartphone makers have better front-facing camerasQ: Are there other smartphones with a flash on the front? Q: Despite being optimized for selfies, early reports show that it's inferior to the iPhone for selfies, even though the resolution is higher even than the iPhones rear camera, let alone front-facing camera. How does the front-facing camera compare to the better Android phones'? Q: Why did they neglect the camera on the back? It sounds unremarkable. Q: What is HTC's "Eye Experience"?Q: The face-tracking feature sounds pretty useful. Can that be used with any video chat app?

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Q: Let's talk about the Re camera. Why did they make a camera that looks like a submarine periscope? Q: Why would anyone use this instead of the smartphone they already have? Q: It seems like HTC takes the opposite approach as Apple, emphasizing image sensor resolution over other camera optimizations. Does having a 16-megapixel camera -- which is twice the resolution of Apple's iPhones -- make it better? Q: The Re has no power button. How do you turn it on? Q: Is this ruggedized for extreme sports? Q: What are the built-in storage and removable card options?

Steven Vaughan-Nichols writes for CNETQ: What is the Chromebook for Work initiative, exactly? Q: Is the Chromebook as well-suited for enterprise users as it is for students?Q: You quoted Google's Chrome for Work Product Manager as saying that the company has taken a big step toward the goal of popularizing Chromebooks for businesses. What big step is he talking about? Q: What do you think of the new Admin Console? Q: What about new remote Windows desktop options? Q: Tell us about the new pricing

A startup called Snowball yesterday launched an Android app that brings messaging conversations from different services into a single location. The app is also called Snowball, and it integrates with WhatApp, Snapchat, Facebook Messenger, SMS, Line, WeChat, Twitter, and Slack.

Jordan Novet writes for VentureBeat. Q: How does Snowball work?Q: You talked to CEO Anish Acharya. How does he envision the future of messaging? Q: Tell us about Steve, the snowmanQ: The company just closed a $2.3 million funding round. Who's backing them? Q: Is there a risk that the apps could shut snowball out and break their integrations? Q: Is Snowball coming to iOS?

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A free new chat app called comiXchat puts your conversations into a hand-drawn comic interface. It comes from a company called Nubis.

Jackie Dove is the Creativity Editor for The Next WebQ: How do they do this?Q: Who is Otto Schmidinger? Q: Which phone platforms are supported? Q: If you attach photos, where do they go? Q: Can you post these cartoon chat sessions on social media? Q: The company has a social media campaig to get people to download. What are they offering? Q: How do they monetize?

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Google today announced a new version of its Hangouts Chrome App for both the Chrome OS and for Windows PCs. They did not announce a new OS X version. When you announced the Chrome plug in on a Mac, it tells you the app is not fully supported. But then it installs, and basically launches the old version when you try to run the new one. The app appears to be separate from the Chrome browser. It looks like icons on the desktop, with connected floating chatheads. As previously announced, Google Voice is integrated, so Google Voice users can just use the Hangouts app in place of Voice. That includes SMS messages sent to the Voice phone number.

The Wall Street Journal confirmed today a Bloomberg report from last week, reporting that Apple's 12.9-inch iPad has been delayed. The company had been planning to start production in December, but has now pushed back that schedule to free up capacity to meet huge iPhone 6 Plus demand. * * *

Square Order, which is an app for ordering and paying for food, coffee and other things for pick-up, now has arrival prediction. You can order at any time, and the participating establishment won't start making it until you're almost there. * * *

AT&T has to pay $105 million to settle a federal investigation into whether it fraudulently billed customers for millions of dollars worth of add-on services. The practice is called "cramming," and in AT&T's case it involved $10 a month added without permission to customer phone bills for dumb features like ringtones, wallpapers, horoscopes, flirting tips, and celebrity gossip. The penalties for doing it involve $25 million in fines, plus $80 million in refunds to customers.

LEGO has released six new Minecraft Lego sets called Cave, Dragon Edge, Farm, First Night, and Workbench. Images of the sets were leaked on a Russian toy store, and aren't expected to become available until November.

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Lily Hay Newman is a reporter for Slate. Q: Twitter says current rules preventing disclosure violates the First Amendment rights of users. Does the first Amendment really protect someone's right to be informed when the government requests their data? Q: So would they disclose information only to American citizens? Q: Would Twitter inform each user every time a government requested their data?Q: How many requests for user information does Twitter get?Q: What kind of information does the government typically want? Q: In December, eight companies leaned on the government to restrict government surveillance. Was that effort successful?

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Remember IBM's Watson? IBM's Jeopardy playing artificial intelligence system? Well the company keeps investing in it -- and give it more capabilities. The company opened a new office yesterday in New York City, and answered some interesting questions about what Watson is up to these days.

Alex Barinka is a reporter for Bloomberg News.Q: What is Watson, exactly? A computer? An application? Q: You reported that Watson has learned to speak Spanish, with more languages coming soon. What will IBM do with this multi-lingual capability? Q: IBM opened a new office in New York yesterday. What is IBM using the office for? Q: IBM is trying to broaden the base of Watson users. How are they doing that? Q: I'm really intrigued by these Watson supported mobile apps you reported on. Can you tell us about those? Q: How much has IBM invested in Watson so far? And do we know if they're making or losing money on that investment?

As announced in April, Facebook yesterday opened its ad network, called the Facebook Audience Network. The change means advertising based on your Facebook personal data may now show up outside of Facebook.

Reed Albergotti is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal. Q: You wrote that Facebook has 1.5 million advertisers and can also appear on any app. That 1.5 million is likely to grow very quickly now, won't it? Q: I'm pretty amazed from your story about how easy it will be for existing Facebook advertisers to expand into the network. Can you describe this process? Q: What do you expect this to do for Facebook's revenue growth? Is this a minor step or a big one?Q: The appeal is theoretically Facebook's ability to target user interests. But have they demonstrated that ability? Personally, I find Facebook ads highly irrelevant. Q: Critics of contextual advertising say that under such business models the user is the product. It's pretty amazing that Facebook calls it the Facebook Audience Network. Q: What do we know so far about the Facebook Audience Network SDK?

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Microsoft’s research lab just cranked out a new photo sharing app called Xim. Like snapchat, the app deletes shared photos after a certain amount of time. But unlike Snapchat, the recipient doesn't need to have the Xim app installed in order to receive the picture. The pictures live in the cloud and they can be viewed with any browser. The coolest bit is that if the sender swipes or zooms on a picture, the recipients will see that action in real-time. The first version is for Windows Phone, which ships today, but future versions for iOS and Android are planned.

We told you yesterday about Apple's sapphire partner, called GT Advanced Technologies, filing bankruptcy. The announcement wiped out 90 percent of the company's value on the stock market. Today Apple said they were surprised by the move and didn't see it coming. Apple said via a spokesman that the company is committed to preserving jobs in Arizona where GT employs some 700 people.

Remember the 1993 open world PC game called Myst? It was the first of its genre -- a rich, artful landscape with mysterious puzzles and clues all over the place. Well now the game is being turned into a TV show, according to a report at Deadline. Legendary TV & Digital Media has signed a deal with Cyan Worlds to create a TV series -- and also a new companion video game -- based on Myst. * * *

Behold, the Google StreetView camel! In order to add the Liwa Desert in the United Arab Emirates to Google Maps, Google lashed a StreetView camera, called the Trekker, to a camel's hump and guided the dromedary across the open sand dunes of the vast Liwa Desert.

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The European Commission is looking into whether Amazon got illegal help from Luxembourg to dodge taxes. Amazon records most of its European profit with a subsidiary in Luxembourg, where the profit is not taxed.

A: Part of a wider crackdownA: Already investigating Apple in IrelandA: Fiat in LuxembourgA: Starbucks in the NetherlandsA: Bigger global trend: Where is money earned, where is it taxed, and which countries are seeking their fair share?

Mike: When's the last time you heard about a Nobel Prize that actually had practical implications in the home and at work? Well here's one. It involves the inventors of low-energy LED light. Here with details is Stephen Shankland, senior editor, CNet news.

Q: Stephen: Give us the big picture here. Who won the Nobel Prize for physics and why is it such a mainstream story this time around?Q: How big a deal is LED lighting in terms of potential energy savings?Q: How big a market for LED lighting will materialize?Q: Was this a controversy-free invention or was there some debate in terms of who developed the intellectual property?

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Apple's partner for the making of sapphire displays has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The move comes less than a year after it signed a $578 million deal with Apple.

Ben Fox Rubin is a reporter at CNETQ: Is the company in trouble? Are they at risk of going out of business? Q: Were they expecting iPhone 6 handsets to have sapphire screens? Was that the original plan? Q: Is this caused by investment in the Apple partnership? Q: Why won't Apple help them with financing? Is Apple being stingy or shortsighted? Q: Is this bad for Apple's reputation? You know, go all-in with Apple and go bankrupt? Q: Should Apple buy GT?

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Our next story shows how privacy concerns can trigger a mass user exodus from one app to another app. But this time, it's the South Korean government allegedly doing the spying, and a German app provider that wants to ride to the rescue.

Q: So Russell, why are South Korean's extra sensitive to privacy on the Internet right now?Q: It sounds like Telegram, a privately-held company in Germany, is trying to address those privacy concerns in South Korea. How so?Q: Are you seeing any type of user-base shift from established apps in South Korea toward Telegram?Q: What's the lesson here? Is this a one-time event, or have privacy concerns shift similar user and app migrations in other countries?

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The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is defending its impersonation of a woman on Facebook. An exclusive by investigative reporter Chris Hamby on Buzzfeed found that the DEA created the fake account of a real person without her knowledge or permission. The agency used her real pictures, too, which they had taken from her seized cell phone. They also posted pictures of her son and niece.

Chris Hamby joins us to talk about his exclusive. Q: What did the DEA use the woman's identity and fake facebook account for? Q: How did they get access to her phone and photos? Q: What did experts on privacy law tell you about the case? Q: Is the DEA also justifying the use of her child's photos? Q: Isn't this just like going undercover? Q: Why is this story just now emerging?

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A: Sondra Arquiett, who then went by the name Sondra PrinceA: arrested alleging she was part of a drug ring, got probation

Remember Facebook's $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp? Yeah, well now it's costing them nearly $22 billion. The reason is that the deal was a mostly-stock transaction, including 178 million shares of Facebook stock. Because the value of Facebook's stock has gone up, the value of the overall deal has also gone up. WhatsApp founder Jan Koum will get nearly $2 billion in Facebook stock -- if, that is, he stays with the company for four years. * * *

Speaking of WhatsApp, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had to use the app to communicate with Oculus VR CEO Brendan Iribe. The reason is that Iribe (like many Facebook users) didn't want to install the separate Facebook Messenger app on his phone. Iribe said in an interview this week that the deal was mostly negotiated via WhatsApp. * * *

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HP will break itself into two companies. One company will be called HP Inc., and will be made up from HP's current PC and printers businesses. The second company, to be called Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, will be based on HP's current corporate computing and IT services businesses.

Arik Hesseldahl writes about enterprise computing for Recode. Q: Why is HP doing this? And why didn't Meg Whitman do this three years ago? Q: How many employees will lose their jobs? Q: What are the split companies worth compared to the current single HP? Q: The PC and printer company will be called HP Inc. That's a perfect name, isn't it, given that its most profitable business will be selling ink cartridges to existing printers?Q: You wrote that splitting the companies in two will get rid of about $1 billion worth of operational synergies, according to Whitman. So why do it? Q: Who will lead the respective companies and represent them on their respective boards?Q: Why didn't Lenovo or Dell want to buy HP's PC operation? And why didn't Wipro and Infosys want to buy HP's Enterprise Services unit? And why didn't IBM want to buy HP's Business Critical Server business? Q: HP recently considered merging with EMC. Why did they want this and why didn't it work out? Q: When will the transaction be completed?

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Lenovo may have its own wearable device soon after its "Lenovo Smartband" makes its way through the FCC. Technically identified by its model number -- SW-B100 -- the band is, quite frankily, nothing surprising. It will alert the wearer to incoming calls and monitor fitness, including exericise, sleep, and heart rate. Brad Linder, editor of Liliputing, is here to talk about this new band.

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Facebook Messenger contains hidden code for a payments feature that would enable users to send money to each other. The feature is complete; all Facebook has to do is turn it on, according to a report on TechCrunch. The code was first discovered by security researcher Jonathan Zdziarski last month using an iOS app exploration developer tool.

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As of November 10, Skype will no longer make calls to land lines or cell phones in India if the calls are placed from within India, according to the Times of India. Microsoft hasn't commented on the reason for the change, and promises to refund money to any affected party.

A: Those travelling outside India can make calls to landline and mobile phones in India and callers from within India can still place Skype calls to outside the country.A: Indian law prevents VoIP calls originating from within the country, so these services typically route the calls outside the country and then back in to avoid breaking the law.A: PC-to-PC calls are legal in India and will continue with Skype. A: There's no news yet of any other IP calling service making a similar move.

Some guy named Corbin Davenport got Microsoft Windows 95 running on an Android Wear watch! He used an Android DOS emulator called aDosBox, then installed Windows 95 on top of it, which make the operating system boot on his Samsung Gear Live smartwatch. Unfortunately, launching any Windows application caused an immediate crash because of insufficient memory.

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Google is working on a new messaging app to compete with Whatsapp. In an exclusive, India's Economic Times newspaper reported today that Google will soon start testing the app in emerging markets like India. The new messaging app would be free, and probably be launched next year, and would not require Google login credentials, unlike its current Hangouts app. If you'll recall, Google offered $10 billion to buy WhatsApp but was outbid by Facebook who picked it up for $19 billion.

The world's biggest YouTube star, Felix [SHELL-berg] Kjellberg, has about 30 million subscribers and makes about 4 million dollars a year in advertising. He's best known as PewDiePie. He signed on with online content producer Maker Studios less than two years ago. But an exclusive interview by Maria Lindholm in the Swedish magazine Icon reported that he's thinking of leaving Maker.